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OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes: deploy node, cluster, and identity in that order

How to split node-local and cluster-wide OpenTelemetry Collectors on Kubernetes with Helm, explicit OTLP export to a backend.

Guide 8 min read Published May 12, 2026

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OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes: deploy node, cluster, and identity in that order

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Entry points for teams trying to make monitoring more useful, less noisy, and easier to defend.

OpenTelemetry

Implementation patterns, collector topology, pipelines, semantic conventions, and migration notes.

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Observability Guides

Full courses and guides to help teams get more value out of their observability tools.

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Observability Playbooks

Practical operating models for logs, metrics, traces, alerts, ownership, and incident readiness.

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Tsuga & Datadog

Practical lessons on observability governance, cost control, dashboards, alerts, and platform operations.

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Recent observability guides

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Guide 21 min read

Query-level PostgreSQL evidence with OpenTelemetry: a privilege decision, not a config flag

Query samples, blocking evidence and pg_stat_statements are not config flags. Each one buys diagnostic power for a privilege, for query text leaving the database, or for work the receiver makes PostgreSQL do. What each costs, measured.

Published Aug 12, 2026

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Guide 16 min read

A database receiver is not database observability: PostgreSQL with OpenTelemetry

The PostgreSQL receiver reports what the server is doing; your traces report what the request felt. Neither joins the other. A staged guide to server metrics, client spans and pool telemetry, with what each one cannot tell you.

Published Jul 31, 2026

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Guide 12 min read

Beyond the defaults: extending Kubernetes enrichment with your own labels and annotations

Add Kubernetes pod and namespace labels or annotations to OpenTelemetry logs with the k8s_attributes processor.

Published Jul 1, 2026

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Guide 9 min read

Debug Your OpenTelemetry Collector Locally Before You Blame the Backend

Stop guessing where telemetry disappeared. Run the OpenTelemetry Collector locally with Docker Compose, send traces, metrics, and logs through it, and verify both pipeline telemetry and Collector self-metrics.

Published May 30, 2026

opentelemetry collector prometheus

Guide 2 min read

Unveiling Olatuak: A New Chapter in Observability Guidance

When we first set out to build this product, we had a simple mission: help teams get more value out of Datadog. We saw how easy it is for observability costs t

Published Nov 4, 2025

datadog observability

Guide 5 min read

The Guided Ops Era: Why Observability Needs a Compass

For years, “visibility” was the holy grail. Teams instrumented everything (logs, traces, metrics), following the seemingly reasonable principle that if they col

Published Nov 2, 2025

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